My Dear Fellow Rotarians,
February is a memorable month for the Bengali Nation. By sacrificing blood on 21st February 1952 we had to establish BANGLA as our state language and since then 21st February is being celebrated as a national day with due solemnity.
Rotary having been founded on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, the month of February finds special significance in Rotary calendar for promoting world understanding and peace. Since inception the Rotarians all over the world dedicated and rededicated themselves for the cause of Peace and Harmony and encrowned Rotary with glory. Unless we sincerely appreciate the spirit of internationality of Rotary and its foundation it is difficult to achieve our objective for peace and world understanding, Hence, I continue my appeal to you to contribute generously to the Rotary Foundation, our foundation to translate our moto service above self in reality.
Last month January was Rotary awareness month. Rotary clubs organised programs with a view to enrich their Rotary knowledge and to share its program and activities with all Rotarians as well as through out the community. I am sure through out the last month clubs made effective endeavor to keep the community on a whole informed of Rotary's efforts to 'Make Dreams, Real'.. I also witnessed such rich programs during my club visits during the month.. By Now I have completed my official club visit to 145 Rotary Clubs. Next month March will have the great Rotaract event ROTASIA-2009. 13 March is the world Rotaract Day and Rotaractors of the district will observe the event in a befitting manner.. I urge upon clubs too organise program to observe world Rotaract Day. I wish to remind you about our greatest annual event of the year Rotary District Conference to be held on 27-28 February 2009 at The Bangladesh China Friendship Convention Center, Sher-e-Banglanagar, Dhaka. This will be the silver Jubilee District Conference. Harsh Mehta a renowned philanthropist will be the chief guest at the inaugural session while our hon’ble president of the people's republic of Bangladesh is expected to be the chief guest at the concluding session. I am happy to learn that large numbers of Rotarians have already completed registration for the district conference. I am looking forward to seeing you at the District Conference. Wish you all a happy journey to and from Dhaka, our beloved 400 year old capital city. I like to avail this opportunity to inform you that one GSE team from Brazil has already arrived in our district. I reassure you that Rotary District Conference Committee under the able leadership of conference chair PP Safina Rahman PHF,B,MD making all necessary arrangements to present you a memorable and enjoyable District Conference full of attractive programs, testy food, comfortable participation, learned speakers and many more attractions. In this annual gathering we can exchange ideas, renew old friendship and make new friends.. We all will make the conference memorable one.. It is you the Rotarians who can make our dreams come true through collective selfless efforts to honour and please do remember the future of Rotary is in your hands. We must not forget the generations of past Rotarians who worked and contributed to the cause of Rotary to make dreams real.
My Dear Fellow Rotarians let us continue our journey to make the world better place too live and translate our promise to serve the suffering humanity ensuring world peace and understanding.
With warm regards and best wishes from me and the district first lady Bakul.
Wishing you all best and with best regards
Yours in Rotary
Md. Hafizullah MPHF
District Governor 2008-2009
RI District 3280 Bangladesh
